Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
and so, [in the end,] We destroyed them [even though they were] of greater might than these: and the [very] image of those people of old became a thing of the past
Arthur John Arberry
so We destroyed men stronger in valour than they, and the example of the ancients passed away
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
So We destroyed (them)- stronger in power than these;- and (thus) has passed on the Parable of the peoples of old
Arabic
فَأَهۡلَكۡنَاۤ أَشَدَّ مِنۡهُم بَطۡشࣰا وَمَضَىٰ مَثَلُ ٱلۡأَوَّلِینَ ٨
Transliteration (2021)
fa-ahlaknā ashadda min'hum baṭshan wamaḍā mathalu l-awalīn